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« Reply #35670 on: Tuesday, October 26, 2021, 11:32:07 »

How is the word 'gif' actually pronounced. I assumed it was with a hard g, but doing some online training at work, the Americans that are on the videos are pronouncing it as if it is 'jif'. Is there an actual answer or just one of those things that you can pronounce as you see fit?

The inventor of it says jif, but a hard g is more common in overall usage.
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« Reply #35671 on: Tuesday, October 26, 2021, 12:19:11 »

Graphics Interchange Format. So really it should be a hard ‘G’.
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« Reply #35672 on: Tuesday, October 26, 2021, 12:31:52 »

I have been using Gifs since their inception back in the late 80s early 90s and we always called them gif with a hard G even though its supposed to be pronounced Jif, I am not sure if I have ever heard anyone actually call it with that J sound.

Also I used to use JIFF format files (JPEG Image Format) and that definately is pronounced jiff so it was to differentiate between them that we called them Giff.
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« Reply #35673 on: Tuesday, October 26, 2021, 13:26:32 »

I have been using Gifs since their inception back in the late 80s early 90s and we always called them gif with a hard G even though its supposed to be pronounced Jif, I am not sure if I have ever heard anyone actually call it with that J sound.

Also I used to use JIFF format files (JPEG Image Format) and that definately is pronounced jiff so it was to differentiate between them that we called them Giff.

If anyone was to know the correct terminology I knew it would be you fella Smiley

Seems the yank on this 2 hour 45 Microsoft Teams training is in the wrong!!
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« Reply #35674 on: Tuesday, October 26, 2021, 13:32:24 »

I used to call it Jif but now call it Cif. Seems to clean my worktops much better now too.
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« Reply #35675 on: Tuesday, October 26, 2021, 13:38:24 »

If anyone was to know the correct terminology I knew it would be you fella Smiley

Seems the yank on this 2 hour 45 Microsoft Teams training is in the wrong!!
Hows the lappy behaving now mate?
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« Reply #35676 on: Tuesday, October 26, 2021, 13:50:07 »

Hows the lappy behaving now mate?

Like a dream mate! Absolutely flawless work as I expected. Smiley And superb customer service also, which is rare these days.
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« Reply #35677 on: Tuesday, October 26, 2021, 13:54:29 »

Like a dream mate! Absolutely flawless work as I expected. Smiley And superb customer service also, which is rare these days.
My absolute pleasure Smiley
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« Reply #35678 on: Tuesday, October 26, 2021, 15:27:42 »

I used to call it Jif but now call it Cif. Seems to clean my worktops much better now too.

Ok that was actually funny.
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« Reply #35679 on: Friday, October 29, 2021, 15:30:53 »

Now obviously I am making an assumption that this person does not have financial hardship, and I have an inkling that she possibly doesn't actually know the meaning of it however this is surely wrong?

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/eliza-manners-fined-fifty-pounds-speeding-pleading-financial-hardship-b963014.html

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« Reply #35680 on: Friday, October 29, 2021, 15:34:55 »

That's the country we live in to a T.
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« Reply #35681 on: Friday, October 29, 2021, 15:47:12 »

That's the country we live in to a T.

And I bet a single mother with 3 kids on the breadline that got caught speeding because she was running late to drop them off at school because her foodbank delivery had turned up late would almost certainly be forced to pay the £100.
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« Reply #35682 on: Friday, October 29, 2021, 16:11:12 »

Well she'd deserve it, constantly popping out sprongs she can't afford. Ought to have her iPhone and flat screen TV taken away and benefits cut too!
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« Reply #35683 on: Friday, October 29, 2021, 16:12:26 »

Well she'd deserve it, constantly popping out sprongs she can't afford. Ought to have her iPhone and flat screen TV taken away and benefits cut too!

Sound like a Tory 😁
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« Reply #35684 on: Friday, October 29, 2021, 16:32:03 »

Curious, I was going for 'scum'.
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